196 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



wings colourless ; fore border and veins tawny. Length of the body 



7 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Hooker. 



147. Cicada crucifera, Mas. 



Nervus tramversus \us subcurmis valde obliquus, angulum perob- 

 tusirni fingens, 2o plus dupld ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us 

 subcurvus, subobliquus, angulum obtusum fingens, \o midtb 

 brevior ; 3us vix undatus, subobliquus, angulum subacutum 

 fingens ; 4us vix undatus, 3o multb longior et obliquior et 

 angidum acutiorem Jingens. 



Second marginal areolet very much longer than the first: first 

 cross-vein very slightly curved, slanting, forming an extremely ob- 

 tuse angle, parted from the second by much more than twice its 

 length ; second slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse 

 angle, much shorter than the first ; third indistinctly waved, slightly 

 slanting, forming a slightly acute angle; fourth indistinctly waved, 

 much longer, more slanting and forming a more acute angle than 

 the third ; fifth slightly curved, nearly upright, forming a slightly 

 acute angle. Body tawny, paler beneath : head narrower than the 

 chest ; region of the eyelets black, sending forth on each side to the 

 eyes two black bands which, being united at the base, include tawny 

 spaces between them ; face prominent, very convex, adorned above 

 with a semicircular black mark which is broader on each side than 

 in front : mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching a little beyond 

 the middle-hips : eyes rather prominent : feelers black : fore-chest 

 hardly narrower in front than behind ; sides, hind border and fur- 

 rows of the scutcheon black, its disk adorned with two black spots 

 near the fore border, behind these are four black spots, and the latter 

 are succeeded by a forked black spot which joins the hind border ; 

 hind-scutcheon narrow, adorned with a pitchy mark on the fore 

 border near the base of each fore-wing, where it is rounded and 

 much widened, its sides are much excavated : scutcheon of the 

 middle-chest adorned with three very large black marks ; side pairs 

 obconical, very broad at the base, extending near to the hind border, 

 each enclosing a little tawny stripe ; middle one semicircular, join- 

 ing a black cross which adorns the cross-ridge; hind border not pro- 

 minent : abdomen obconical, longer than the chest ; disk above 

 black with the exception of the hind borders of the segments, which 

 are more or less tawny ; horn tawny: opercula rather large, close, 

 pale tawny, pitchy on the inner side ; drums large, pale tawny, 

 slightly overlapping, somewhat less than half the length of the ab- 



